Alana Barton

Fragile Moralities and Dangerous Sexualities

Two Centuries of Semi-Penal Institutionalisation for Women

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book Alana Barton explores the social control and disciplining of unruly and 'deviant' women from the early nineteenth century to the present day. She focuses in particular on the 'semi penal' institution, a category that includes refuges, reformatories and homes. She suggests that these occupy a unique position within the social control 'continuum', somewhere between the formal regulation of the prison and the informal control of the 'community' or domestic sphere, but at the same time incorporating methods of discipline from both arenas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780754638292
• ISBN-10: 0754638294
• Artikelnr.: 21926590

Autorenporträt

Dr Alana Barton, Centre for Studies in Crime and Social Justice, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Women behaving badly: feminist theory and the social control of women
'Wayward girls and wicked women': the history and development of the semi-penal institution
Domestic discipline: semi-penal institutionalisation in the nineteenth century
Between the church and the state: semi-penal institutionalisation in the twentieth century
Vernon Lodge: the probation hostel for women as a semi-penal institution?
Conclusion
Appendix: methodology
Bibliography
Index.